Space finds facilitator

Sun Sep 7 00:15:09 PDT 2008

Dear Doama,

The workshop will be from November 13th lunch-November 15th lunch.
I expect to finalise the invitation tomorrow, now that a space has 
found me,
and mail it to you. It would be nice if you could make it !

If the dates don't suit your schedule, there's a series of events, 
about one every week
in different countries. Only those who realy intend to miss it need to 
do so.

Greetings from Denmark,

Gerard Muller
Open Space Institute Denmark
Phone: (+45) 21269621					Skype: openspace1
Mail: gm at openspace.dk

On Sep 6, 2008, at 11:17 PM, Diana Larsen wrote:

> Gerard,
>
> When will the workshop take place? I want to let some people know.
>
> Doama
>
> **
> Diana Larsen
> http://www.futureworksconsulting.com/get-in-touch
>
> "Secrets of Agile Teamwork: Beyond Technical Skills" workshop with 
> Esther Derby and Diana Larsen.
> October 21-23, 2008, Amelia Island Florida
> To register: http://tinyurl.com/6fv6xc
>
> "The Art of Agile..." workshop series with James Shore and Diana 
> Larsen,
> Oct. 27-31, 2008, Portland, Oregon
> To register: http://tinyurl.com/6n5kbd
>
>
> On Sep 6, 2008, at 2:57 AM, Gerard Muller wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>>
>> I really enjoy working in beautiful spaces. More often than not 
>> however,
>> clients have already rented
>> one, usually too cramped or sterile, without any spirit. Sometimes 
>> there is
>> a wonderful room I did not yet know.
>>
>>
>> The worst space I ever worked in was when I was opening space for a 
>> regional
>> tax office.
>> They had decided to have the meeting in their cellar - to save costs. 
>> The
>> ceiling was low,  it was a long and narrow rectangle. It had to hold 
>> 195
>> participants. I wasn’t happy.
>>
>>
>> To my surprise the problem they had to solve was so bad that it did 
>> not seem
>> to make a difference.
>>
>>
>> Sometimes I find the space I am to work in is unusual, or wonderful, 
>> or
>> both. I have worked in tents,
>> in barns, in police stations, in city council meeting rooms, in 
>> museums,
>> hospitals, castles, monasteries, churches, and so on.  Over the years 
>> I have
>> found some places I really like to be.
>>
>>
>> Sometimes the client has not yet booked something. Especially when it 
>> is not
>> an internal meeting but a system, I find it useful to ask what 
>> location
>> other than a normal meeting space would symbolise and offer the right
>> environment for what they want to achieve. Again this has produced 
>> some
>> remarkable spots.
>>
>>
>> This time around, however, I could select the space. It concerned a 
>> rather
>> special meeting; the seminar
>> on Harrison’s Wave Rider Tour in the Netherlands.
>>
>>
>> Then something strange happened.
>>
>>
>> All locations that I know and like were booked.
>>
>>
>> I wrote to my network and asked for suggestions. Some twenty-five
>> suggestions came in, most of which I did not know at all. In good 
>> spirits I
>> started to check. All that I contacted were booked, too.
>>
>>
>> I finally called a suggestion our collegue Gijs, a Dutchman living in
>> Shanghai gave me when we met
>> at WOSONOS in San Francisco. I called the secretariat of the
>> Sufi-organisation and explained them
>> I was looking for a special meeting space. Yes, they did have some 
>> meeting
>> facilities, but they were definitely not a commercial conference 
>> centre.
>> Only meetings with a strong spiritual link could be held.
>>
>>
>> What came to my mind was to say that our meeting was to be about 
>> creating
>> dialogue and enabling deep conversations that matter, but that I was 
>> not
>> looking for normal facilities, but had heard they had quite a special 
>> place.
>>
>>
>> There was a pause on the telephone line. “You must be reffering to our
>> temple”. I then remembered Gijs actually mentioned a temple.
>>
>>
>> I was then given the name of the guardian of the temple. A few hours 
>> later I
>> was there and had a wonderful conversation with a perfect stranger in 
>> an
>> amazing building: a Sufi temple, a perfect square with a golden dome
>> transparant enough to somehow pas on the light into the space.
>>
>>
>> The story of its foundation is, that Sufi teacher Hazrat Inayat Khan, 
>> sent
>> from India to Eaurope to create a link between the East and the West, 
>> had a
>> special experience during the summer school of 1922. He blessed the 
>> spot and
>> gave it the name Murad Hassil, which means "wish for filled".
>> He said to his students that anyone who prays with honesty, would 
>> experience
>> this blessing.
>>
>>
>> So, Wave Rider in the Netherlands will take place in the Sufi Temple, 
>> not
>> far from Amsterdam airport.
>> And by the way, it lies at on a dune at the seacoast. It comes 
>> including
>> real waves.
>>
>>
>> If you feel like coming, drop me a line.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Gerard Muller
>> gm at openspace.dk
>>
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